It turns out that following a "gut feeling" after talking to Jerry Seinfeld about walking away from Seinfeld, Jackman knew that it was time to leave his role after 17 years and nine movies, but just needed to give Wolverine a fitting bow.

And talking to EW, he's opened up about why he and director James Mangold came up with Logan's ending, so some SERIOUS spoilers follow after the trailer.

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Don't say we didn't warn you.

It turns out that Mangold was the first one to suggest that Logan should die at the end of the movie, an idea that Jackman was open to.

"I thought, 'This is a reason to do another movie and a reason to do no more after it'. But we really needed to earn it," he recalled.

If you've seen the movie – and we hope you have since you're reading this – you'll know that they earn every single tear that falls after Logan sacrifices himself to save Laura (Dafne Keen) and her fellow clone mutants.